Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Gut Hacks | Discover the Secret of GI Tract Resets with Colonics!

8 Aug 2024 · 1 min

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Aaron Hartman, MD describes colonics (colon hydrotherapy) as a simple method to 'flush' and reset the GI tract: a tube placed in the rectum delivers filtered water to remove stool, sometimes used instead of oral colonoscopy prep. He claims colonics massage the colon, increase lymphatic flow, have a detoxifying effect, and are practical (about 45 minutes, little prep).

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Flushes are really big. GI tract resets. They made you kind of flush, but actually, it's pretty easy to do. Is a colonic. A colonic is when someone. You have a tube placed in your bottom, and they use filtered water to slowly just infiltrate in slowly to get out your stool. You can actually. Sometimes people actually do these to prep for a colonoscopy. Instead of swallowing the stuff, they'll do a colonic before to clean out the stool. But the idea of a colonic is that it actually massages your colon, increases lymphatic flow, and removes all that stool. It also has a massive detoxification impact on your colon. The thing about colon you have to go somewhere and do it, but you're sitting there 45 minutes. You don't. There's not a big prep time. So it's an easy thing to do.